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Man, 19, charged with assaulting student Science Knox Road fight’s direct cause unknown; student hospitalized with injuries

BY KARA ESTELLE Staff writer

A student was hospitalized early Wednesday morning after being assaulted by a male unaffiliated with the university, Prince George’s County Police said.

Police responded to a call about a fight outside of 4313 Knox Road at 1:40 a.m. on Oct. 7, District 1 Assistant Commander Capt. Daniel Lipsey said. The police officer who responded

to the call reported that he saw the victim — a male student — lying on the ground, apparently lapsing in and out of consciousness.

Nelson Alfredo Carbajal, 19, of Rockville, was arrested at the scene and charged with seconddegree assault.

Lipsey said the student victim was transported to Washington Adventist Hospital and treated for injuries to his face and head.

The student is now out of the hospital and recovering at home.

The relationship between the suspect and the victim, as well as the cause of the fight, is unknown, police said. But Lipsey noted alcohol was “definitely involved.”

“I think it’s safe to say both parties had been drinking,” Lipsey said, adding Carbajal was very intoxicated.

After hearing of the assault, some students said they were surprised that a student would be

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R E V O G N BATTLI Y C A G E L A

Life sciences school toughens requirements

BY DERBY COX Senior staff writer

In an attempt to curb spiking enrollment, the chemical and life sciences college will become a limited enrollment program next year, making it harder for students to get into the college.

Beginning next fall, freshman direct admits will need to meet a set of gateway requirements, and students will have to meet more qualifications to transfer into the college, which includes the biology and chemistry majors. The stricter requirements will reduce class sizes and better prepare students for the rigors of the majors offered, administrators said.

Under the new requirements, students interested in transferring into majors in CLFS will have to have a 2.7 grade point average and complete several introductory courses. Freshmen admitted to the college will have to complete a list of key courses within 45 credits of entering the university.

Enrollment in the college has risen steadily

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LIMITED ENROLLMENT PROGRAMS Majors in the chemical and life sciences college are becoming limited enrollment programs, meaning students must meet a certain set of standards before switching into one of them. Here are the university’s other limited enrollment programs: All architecture majors All business majors Communication Criminology and criminal justice All engineering majors Government and politics Journalism Psychology

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Univ. astronomer finds large, invisible ring around Saturn Ring spotted using infrared telescope

BY AMY HEMMATI

Trying to save 2nd base ‘Boobie Bus’ aims to increase breast cancer awareness

Staff writer

Everyone knows Saturn has rings.

But until last Tuesday, no one knew about the biggest one.

That was when astronomy professor Douglas Hamilton, along with collaborators from the University of Virginia, announced they had discovered a huge, nearly invisible ring around the sixth planet from the sun. The ring, the largest found so far in the solar system, was first seen using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, which produced infrared images.

“The ring is made of dust particles that absorb light from the sun, which is picked up with the infrared telescope,” Hamilton said. “The particles are dark, so you need to use the infrared telescope to pick up the heat to get the shape of the ring.”

Since the discovery, Hamilton’s

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phone has been ringing off the hook.

The announcement has brought huge amounts of attention to the astronomy department, including visits from the

major television networks.

According to Hamilton, the discovery

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The boobie bus is here.

And it is fighting breast cancer. Two boobies at a time.

The car is part of the Feel Your Boobies Foundation, a national campaign to increase breast cancer awareness among young women. The group spread their message yesterday on the campus as part of Breast Cancer Awareness month, emphasizing their “Feel Your Boobies” slogan as a way to catch breast cancer early.

The non-profit group sells a

collection of apparel emblazoned with their signature slogan online. But, as part of a new initiative to the campaign, the group has started traveling to universities in the so-called “boobie bus” to speak and reach out to large groups of women about early detection.

“Something as simple as saying, ‘feel your boobies,’ can save other people’s lives,” founder of the campaign Leigh Hurst said.

The bus is actually a hot pink car covered in magnets that say “steal a magnet, spread the

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from page 1 of the ring began with a hunch based on the existence of dark organic material collected on one of Saturn’s moons, Lapetus. Now, Hamilton hypothesizes similar rings exist around Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, all of which have small moons with dark sides similar to those of Saturn.

Hamilton said that if the ring was visi-

ble from the Earth, it would appear as a glowing rectangle with a width larger than the diameter of a full moon.

“We don’t see the ring because sunlight goes straight through the carbon dust particles,” Hamilton said. “Only about one photon per hundred million that goes through the ring is absorbed.”

The ring, which is one hundred times as large as Saturn’s other rings, was created by millions of dust particles and debris flying off Phoebe, one of Saturn’s moons. While it is huge compared to the other rings orbiting Sat-

urn, it is still defined as a ring because it is a collection of material orbiting the planet.

“This discovery disproves the paradigm that rings have to be close to planets,” Hamilton said.

The ring is also hundreds of times less dense than all other known rings.

“If you took a sample from the ring that was one kilometer squared, you would get about 20 micron-sized particles,” Hamilton said.

Sophomore history education major Becky Durgin thinks the discovery

sheds a positive light on the university.

“I think it brings good publicity to the school and it may encourage more people to take astronomy classes,” she said.

Others were less interested in the research.

“I wasn’t really that impressed — they discover things like that all the time,” freshman engineering major James Galatola. “If you were standing in the middle of it, you wouldn’t notice.” hemmati@umdbk.com

COLUMBUS from page 1 relations” — a period he said was between 1890 and 1940, when “racism as an ideology went to its highest level in American society” and when he said many of the historical inaccuracies concerning Columbus and the Native Americans originated.

Loewen said arguments of race inferiority were used as justification for systematically killing Native Americans. One textbook he cited referred to the Native Americans who first journeyed to the continent as “wanderers.” But Loewen pointed out that Columbus, who is remembered for his accidental discovery of the Americas, was never referred to in such a way.

The same textbook, he said, accused Native Americans of not knowing they were exploring a “large land mass.”

“A Labrador retriever would know it was exploring a large land mass,” he said.

Though the event was intended to spark debate, most attendees were already devotees of Loewen’s school of thought.

“We all know that Columbus wasn’t the person the textbooks build him up to be, and I think it’s up to us to kind of learn more about the history of America — the true history of America,” freshman environmental science and policy major Jesse Rabinowitz said.

Senior American studies major Carter Thomas saw the last 10 minutes of Loewen’s presentation two

Historian and author James Loewen speaks to a crowded Grand Ballroom audience in the student union last night about how “Columbus Didn't Discover Us.” CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

years ago and was intrigued, prompting him to attend the event last night.

“I was like, OK, I really want to come and see the whole thing this time,” he said. “I knew that it was a pretty solid and critical analysis of things.”

The lecture stood in stark contrast to a more traditional speech being given tomorrow evening, entitled “Colombus Day Without Guilt.”

Thomas Bowden of the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights will speak in the Art-Sociology building tonight at 6:30 p.m. on how “attacks” such as

Loewen’s yield the “embarrassed, guilty silence” that pervades the country on Columbus Day, as he wrote in an editorial that the lecture will revolve around that is featured on the center’s website.

Bowden wrote in his editorial, titled “Let’s Take Back Columbus Day,” that the “reason and individualism” that sets Western civilization apart trump past bloodshed with the right to celebrate Columbus Day with pride.

But Loewen doesn’t see Columbus’

arrival as a gateway for Western civilization to flourish.

“One of the things he did do was start the Atlantic slave trade … and the Columbian Exchange, which finally found its way into history textbooks in 2002,” Loewen said, citing the famous exchange of disease, slaves and landscape-altering crops as “only the single most important thing that happened on this planet in the last thousand years.” aisaacs@umdbk.com

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Exploring shades of black

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Black students explore divisions between ethnicities, discuss solutions

BY MELISSA QUIJADA Staff writer

A lively crowd of African American, African and Caribbean students discussed the cultural subtleties creating divisions between their ethnic groups yesterday, yet agreed on no clear solutions.

Last night, students filled Nyumburu Cultural Center’s multipurpose center, eager to express their views on the definition of “black” and on-campus cultural tensions. Student leaders of various cultural organizations on the campus — the Black Student Union, African Student Association, Ethiopian Students Association and Society of African American Studies — invited students to ask and answer questions about stereotypes, challenging sentiments of ethnocentrism within their communities.

“From most of the interactions and relations I see, Caribbeans and Africans get along better than they do with African Americans,” freshman biology and psychology major Patrick Grant said. “The first question minorities ask when they meet each other is ‘are you African or Caribbean?’”

In an attempt to bridge these divides, student wrote their ethnic identity, along with a stereotype within their identity, on a sticky note, and posted them on one of the three wall sections — Caribbean, African

Members of multiple black student organizations held an event in the Nyumburu Cultural Center yesterday to discuss differences that divide them. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

and African American.

“There has been a publicly unspoken clash among Africans, American Africans and Caribbeans. And I don’t know the cause of it,” BSU President Amber Simmons said, adding that event coordinators intended to engage students in an honest and informed discussion.

Underlying tensions among groups come from a larger issue, participants said.

“The problem that these students are facing is that there is a lot of diversity within the

black student body,” African American studies professor Darrell Gaskin said.

Many students who spoke maintained the need for an individual definition of identity.

They spoke against the unwillingness of people to interact outside of their comfort zones, which they said were created around cultural ties.

Students also debated whether the definition of “black” culture referred to African Americans or to recent immigrants from Africa or the Caribbean.

The event left many questions unanswered.

Participants, however, said just talking about these issues can help combat them.

“Traditionally on college campuses, there were so few black communities that groups were ignored,” Gaskin said. “Students are trying to figure out how to maintain a strong sense of community while at the same time acknowledging the differences between them.” quijada@umdbk.com

for several years, climbing from about 2,200 in fall of 2004 to about 2,800 last year, said Mahlon Straszheim, an interim associate provost who cochaired a committee that recommended the change. At the same time, the number of faculty in the college has held steady, CLFS Associate Dean Robert Infantino said.

“The number of majors we have has grown to such a point that we don’t feel that we can provide the kind of courses we want or maintain the kind of interactions we want between faculty and students if we don’t address that imbalance,” Infantino said.

Besides easing the burden on faculty charged with teaching to mushrooming class sizes, the move will also ensure students are ready for the coursework, administrators said.

“That’s really what faculty are interested in,” Infantino said. “It’s a better-prepared audience.”

Chemistry and biochemistry professor Dorothy Beckett wrote in an e-mail that she thought the decision was a good idea and hoped it would “even out” the abilities of students in the college. As it is now, a wide range in student aptitude complicates teaching, she wrote.

But “better prepared” will also come with a smaller audience, meaning some interested students won’t be able to enroll.

“When you impose limits on entry, entry becomes more competitive, and you’re able to serve less students,” Straszheim said.

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There is not a specific enrollment target, Infantino said.

Even if money were available, Infantino said hiring more faculty to keep up with student enrollment is difficult to do because student enrollment varies and is not easy to predict. University-wide budget cuts have restricted hiring, but he added the decision is not a result of the university’s financial situation.

College officials have discussed how to meet increasing enrollment for the last six years, Infantino said. About six months ago, a committee composed of university faculty and administrators began to look into the issue, and Provost Nariman Farvardin approved the change in late August, Straszheim said.

Infantino and Straszheim said growing interest in the college has mirrored growing national interest in life sciences.

“Whenever the economy goes south ... people look toward any indicators in the market place that suggest that one sector of the market is more stable or potentially has more jobs than others,” Infantino said.

“Right now if you listen to CNN, they seem to suggest that there is an increase in demand in health care fields.”

Dean Norma Allewell said the change would improve the academic quality of the college.

“This is something that we expect to be a win-win. It will enable more of our students to succeed,” Allewell said. “It will have the effect of reducing class size. It will avoid the unrestricted growth of the college at a time when funds are scarce.” cox@umdbk.com

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word,” which people are encouraged to pull off the car and take with them. Sexual Health Program Coordinator Alli Matson, Colleges Against Cancer and Beta Sigma Gamma teamed up to bring the car and the group to the campus.

Hurst spoke to a crowd of around 50 yesterday in Van Munching Hall. Hurst was diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer at the age of 33. She detected her lump, not by conducting official self-breast exams, but simply feeling her breasts in the shower and noticing a change.

Hurst went through four rounds of chemotherapy over the next six months. She said she lost her hair, but not her strength or her spirit.

Hurst has now been in remission for five years. One summer after her treatment, she designed shirts with the slogan, “Feel Your Boobies,” for friends, as a joke and a reminder of the test that saved her life. The joke eventually evolved into a whole product line of water bottles, tote bags and even thongs carrying Hurst’s unconventional message.

“Your life can change in an

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The so-called “boobie bus” spreads the message about early breast cancer detection.

instant, and it can seem so bad, but you can turn it into something good,” Hurst said.

During her speech, Hurst was laid back and positive, emphasizing the importance of optimism. Even during the hardest times of her treatment, she said she made it through with a little laughter and support from friends and family.

“You could be the biggest bitch in the world or at your rawest moments, and you’re still loved,” Hurst said.

Hurst encouraged questions from the audience, and she spent a large part of the roughly hour-long presentation addressing individual concerns.

“I’ve never had so many great questions,” Hurst said. “I

Freshman math major Jillian Luicci, who also attended the event, said she felt Hurst really connected with her younger audience.

“It was more of a discussion than a presentation,” Luicci said. “We’ll definitely be feeling our boobies tonight.”

hurt badly enough in hand-tohand combat to require hospitalization.

“That’s really shocking,” sophomore kinesiology major Brooke Supinski said. “I feel like people do get in fights all the time, but they don’t usually result in serious injuries. I didn’t know violence was that big of a problem.”

But Supinski added she still feels safe on and around the campus because she has confidence in University Police precautions to ensure student safety. She added she thinks Prince George’s County just has a bad reputation.

Senior English major Nathalie Pena said the fight does not surprise her — she is aware of the crime in the area. But Pena said for the most part, she feels safe at the university as well.

Police said assaults do not always lead to hospitalizations, noting the type and severity of injuries typically dictate whether or not someone needs to be treated — not the type of crime.

Carbajal’s trial is scheduled for Dec. 4, according to Prince George’s County District Court records.

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was really inspired by that.”

Sophomore landscape architecture major Courtney Shea attended the event because her grandmother was a breast cancer victim and she knew she was at a higher risk for developing the disease.

“I wanted to learn about detection,” Shea said. “It’s important to encourage awareness.”

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Barking about parking

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oo often, problems at the university and in College Park are met with $128 for the fall semester and $213 annually. So the entire contingent of comthe same answer: Charge students more. When the University Book muter students has absolutely no incentive to come anywhere near the garage.

The city’s plan is to increase the hourly meter prices at the surface lots. This Center needs more money, the difference is made up with student fees. When the libraries and the University Health Center need won’t necessarily drive away traffic — few people spend more than an hour or money, student fees are increased, too. And now the city garage on Knox Road two shopping there. Perhaps if the shopping center offered eight hours’ worth of entertainment, it would make fiscal sense to park in the garage and save a is following suit.

The two-month-old garage, located behind Cornerstone Grill and Loft, has few bucks. With the exception of people who eat their Chipotle agonizingly slowly and waddle over to Rugged Wearhouse and CVS, it been an overwhelming dud so far: Only about 20 cars are seems that no one spends enough time in the shopping cenpaying to park at the 288-space garage at any given time, ter to gain significant savings from a 25-cent difference in less than 10 percent of capacity. The city’s solution is to rates. City officials can increase meter rates if they choose, raise the price of hourly parking from 75 cents to $1 at the College Park Shopping Center, theoretically funneling shop- There are better options to but it makes more sense to offer discounted long-term parking. By charging less, they could make more. pers into the slightly cheaper garage. While this makes steer traffic toward the At the moment, the garage stands quite barren. Selling sense, college students are not made of money. The real Knox parking garage than monthly passes at a reduced rate would encourage students solution lies in city officials offering discounted long-term parking to students in an effort to make more by charging simply raising meter rates to take up spaces that are otherwise empty every day. Fiscally, reducing rates will not cover the costs of the garage less. If they want to attract people into the parking garage, in other parking lots. better than existing long-term rates, but think about it in the focus should be on a pressing need of cheaper long-term real terms: Right now, those empty spaces are earning nothing. Perhaps if parking than the university offers.

Right now, at $55 a month for three or more months, the rate in the garage is demand starts to exceed supply, the rates can be tinkered with. But for now, comparable to buying a university parking pass. A fall semester resident park- the garage stands as a colossal failure.

An extra quarter per hour at surface lots will not suddenly turn the city ing pass on the campus will run a student $247, meaning a campus resident would only save $27 over four months by eschewing an on-campus parking garage into a burgeoning success story. But if the city can offer parking with pass for a long-term permit at the city garage. Commuter students are actually less of a headache and at a more competitive price than offered by the univerbetter off buying a parking pass on the campus because commuter passes cost sity, the garage will start to see results.

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Campaign slogans: Making it memorable

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an, don’t you just love campaign slogans?

“Change we can believe in.” “Country first.” “It’s morning again in America.” With the 2010 elections for state and county government right around the corner, expect to start seeing them on the road signs again pretty soon. I have to wonder how much stock voters put in these messages, seeing as how I don’t even remember any from 2000 or 2004.

Then again, I probably blocked out those elections.

Back in the day, slogans were a little more interesting. Former President Jimmy Carter had “Not Just Peanuts.”

Courting the vote of the allergic? Former President Herbert Hoover’s was a drawn-out “A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.” Former President Calvin Coolidge tried to come off as the cool guy with “Keep cool with Coolidge.” In 1916, former President Woodrow Wilson’s was “He kept us out of war.” That didn’t last long. No one,

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DERNOGA however, tops Abe Lincoln and his “Don’t swap horses in midstream.”

If I decided to run for office, I’d go a different route and garner media attention with unusual and outrageous campaign slogans. After all, no one has any clue who I am because no one reads this column (whew), so I’d have to act up to get more attention than that fly President Barack Obama swatted.

Some of these warrant an explanation, which I will provide in debates and apology speeches.

“Matt Dernoga: More than you deserve.” The logic behind this is people like to be told you’re too good for them, and a superiority complex can help with governing. “Matt Dernoga: I

lost a bet.” People can relate to me because we both have an addiction to gambling. “Matt Dernoga: God told me to.” This will easily court the religious right, which will be necessary for me since I’m a Democrat. “Matt Dernoga: Taxes up, services down.”

This is what the other politicians are doing, but people will appreciate my honesty. “Matt Dernoga: That’s what she said.” Listen to her, folks. “Matt Dernoga: Don’t ask.” This will throw the media off guard.

“Matt Dernoga: Just say yes.” I’ll only use this one if it works for Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell. His slogan is also used by the Coalition for Positive Sexuality, which promotes “irreverent and unabashed sex education” for teens.

Really, Google it. Probably not what the family values guy was going for. Running for state’s attorney? “Live long and prosecute.” The Star Trek geeks will come out in force. “Matt Dernoga: Not for sale, but my house is!” This is how

you kill two birds with one slogan.

The thing is, I’m a crazy environmentalist, and I need slogans for all my voting constituencies — even the hippies.

“Matt Dernoga: Act like you live here.”

I mean, we do live here, right? “Matt Dernoga: Reuse and recycle.” Only if I’m running for reelection. “Matt Dernoga: Lights out.” Obviously I’m talking about turning your lights out when you leave the room. “Matt Dernoga: Clean as coal.” Because neither the extraction nor the burning of coal will ever be clean. “Matt Dernoga: Going green with your green.” Because breathing cleaner air, drinking cleaner water, avoiding catastrophic global warming and leading in the multi-trillion-dollar clean energy economy will require an upfront investment with immediate and long-term benefits.

“Matt Dernoga: Couldn’t resist.”

Matt Dernoga is a senior government and politics major. He can be reached at dernoga@umdbk.com.

Campus walking: It’s a treacherous road

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month and a half into college and I think I’ve finally got a routine going. I’ve discovered all the hidden shortcuts to my classes (Who knew you could go through the stadium to get to Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center from Ellicott Hall?), found my favorite shower, sink and bathroom stall and kicked that habit of looking both ways while crossing the street.

[Inhales sharply] I feel so collegiate.

But while I’m getting accustomed to some things, I’m growing tired of others. Call me lazy, but I’m getting sick of walking. I had thought that my first week of college would be like what I felt during my first week of high school: The buildings and grounds seem huge but they get smaller over time. The problem is, the campus really is huge. Although I know my way around now, it’s really not getting

any smaller.

Every morning I wake up to scurry over to Jimenez Hall from Ellicott. At first, I thought about it in a positive light — wouldn’t it be a great morning exercise? But as the weeks went on, my motivation declined exponentially.

The main reason behind this is that accursed hill that runs parallel to Stamp Student Union. Could it get any steeper? I don’t think I’m horribly out of shape, but I’m always out of breath once I reach the top.

Multiply this trip by five (my introductory language course meets every day) and maybe it can counteract the image of me being just another spoiled and lazy freshman.

I realize there’s a simple solution to my problem: Get a bike. The thing is, I’m a bit uncoordinated and I have a tendency to spontaneously daydream, which causes me to com-

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SHE pletely disregard my surroundings.

Combine that with a bicycle and it just won’t turn out well.

I also have a secret dislike for bicyclists. I just can never understand why some bicyclists explicitly choose to use the main road, slowing down everyone behind them when there’s an empty sidewalk right next to them.

Also, before I actually got the hang of the breaks on my car, a bicyclist once shot me a really dirty look when I overshot a crosswalk by a foot. Whatever, buddy.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand.

With a bike out of the question, I considered the alternatives. Scooter? It would be useful for going downhill but probably not uphill. Rollerblades?

Never learned how. Skateboard? I’m unbalanced. Electric scooter? Eh, seems like a bit of a hassle to get a permit, gas, etc. Jetpack? I wish.

Looks like I’m back at square one. I guess I’ll try to keep myself occupied and motivated by playing that game where you avoid the cracks in the sidewalk or by blasting Jordin Sparks’ “One Step at a Time.”

Actually, on the bright side, maybe walking is the only thing that’s keeping my freshman 15 at bay — I’m kind of too lazy to walk to the gym.

Angelina She is a freshman physiology and neurobiology major. She can be reached at she@umdbk.com.

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n Oct. 1, 2009, university President Dan Mote announced the University Senate would endorse the university’s first Climate Action Plan. I want to commend Mote and our colleagues in the University Senate for taking this important step in the creation of a campuswide sustainability agenda that will hopefully lead us all toward a brighter future.

How we move forward to address our shared aspirations for creating a more sustainable university environment — physically, intellectually and pedagogically — is of critical importance to our potential success or failure. Who we are, how we see ourselves and how others see us will play a role in this process.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching classifies this university among schools with very high research activity. This classification places us in the company of 96 institutions nationwide where big science, engineering and research are often priorities that outpace other institutional initiatives.

It would be a fatal mistake to view the problems of sustainability and the environment as problems for scientists and engineers.

The CAP announcement referenced the University Sustainability Council, whose faculty membership is limited to two individuals — one an engineer and the other a scientist, while the two students on the committee are drawn from the sciences. The composition of this council reveals unspoken yet discernible prejudices regarding disciplines on the campus that are essential allies in addressing sustainability and those that are not. This narrow view of sustainability may lead to unintended consequences.

Sustainability and the environment present challenges that are problems for the entire university community.

They are as much the problems of the fine arts, philosophy, the humanities, journalism, business and the design professions as they are problems for scientists and engineers.

In Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect, David Orr asserts that discourse of all disciplines is essential to understanding our environmental predicament — the humanities, the arts and the social sciences are as important to addressing sustainability as engineering and the sciences.

Others closer to the university have come to similar conclusions.

The Chesapeake Project, a university learning community, identified collaborative interdisciplinary work across a broad intellectual spectrum as essential to the development of environmental knowledge. Intellectual diversity, disciplinary expertise and collaboration were all factors that contributed to the success of LEAFHouse, the university’s entry to the 2007 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon (LEAFHouse garnered second place in the international competition and was first among American schools).

The problems of the environment and sustainability are problems of design. Our school’s motto, “Collaborative Design for a Sustainable Future,” embodies that ethic.

The construction industry, our patterns of living on this planet, how we treat existing buildings and landscapes and how we develop real estate are among the largest contributors to greenhouse gases, our bloated carbon footprint, enormous solid waste output and reckless consumption of productive agricultural and natural environments.

Seeing sustainability through the lenses of science and engineering can at best provide fragmentary visions as to what lies ahead of us.

Most importantly, this narrow perspective of sustainability limits effective solutions to the problems that are being encountered by all inhabitants of this planet. Extending an invitation to a broader cross-section of the university community to participate in this important discussion is an essential step to take in order to ensure we meet what I believe is our university’s shared ideal of a collaborative search for a sustainable future.

Brian Kelly is an associate professor in the school of architecture, planning and preservation. He can be reached at bkelly@umd.edu.

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Formerly on fire, now up in smoke Embryonic is an atypical error in The Flaming Lips’ musical experiments

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On their defining 1999 album The Soft Bulletin, The Flaming Lips eloquently informed the world “a spoonful weighs a ton.” In crafting their new album, Embryonic, the band discards this principle to heap layers of heavy jams, hollow echoes and thin lyricism onto their sound until the album slowly collapses into an empty, unremarkable void.

Clouds Taste Metallic, the aforementioned The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots constituted a stretch of material as rewarding and awe-inspiring as any in recent music history. Since shedding his punk roots and aging past 40, lead singer Wayne Coyne achieved a great feat by conjuring such vibrant and affecting songwriting on those albums.

But he does not continue the trend on the band’s latest effort. Unfortunately, most fans who attended a Lips concert this summer can probably attest to Embryonic being nearly doomed before its release today.

During the otherwise exuberant and oddly spiritual live experience trademarked by the group, Coyne would introduce a new track such as album opener “Convinced of

the Hex” with all his usual enthusiasm.

When the song started, however, the crowd often grew restless. It’s hard to blame them. Coyne has long been creating glorious choruses simple enough to latch on to but profound enough to be moving. But in “Convinced of the Hex,” he offers nothing of the sort.

Virtuoso Steven Drozd’s long, gorgeous synth lines, which he infused in The Soft Bulletin, are gone. They are replaced by choppy, sharp guitar riffs. Coyne’s vocals, usually at the forefront of the mix and purely expressive, are distorted and echoed unnecessarily. Of course, his pseudo-quatrain doesn’t contain much in the first place: “She said I like your theory/ But it won’t pass no tests/ Watch the watcher/ Getting shot in the chest.”

There is also a familiar, ongoing struggle between humans, animals and an uncaring, opaque technological universe.

The aptly titled “The Sparrow Looks Up at the Machine” isn’t half bad but still lacks the verve of “What Is the Light” or “Race for the Prize.” Those songs could carry the listener along with a stirring synthesis of Drozd’s instrumentation and Coyne’s musings.

In “The Sparrow Looks Up at the Machine,” the shuffling

drums match nicely with a heavy bass line and Coyne’s existentially disembodied, rhyming questions: “What does it mean/ to dream what you dream/ to believe what you’ve seen?” But the song could do without the busy guitar licks, and the band never quite finds the right tempo to coast on.

“I Can Be a Frog” works firmly from the animalistic vein. The song is a veritable quirkfest featuring a recording of Yeah Yeah Yeahs lead singer Karen O imitating “a frog,” “a cat” and “a warrior Indian,” among many others, over the phone. Although the concept is a better fit for an archetypal indie film, Coyne continues his tradition of beatifying kitsch.

It’s nearly impossible to listen without a stray chuckle or two at the levels of indulgence the Lips demand.

Though it might be statistically premature to generalize, any Flaming Lips song with evil in the title appears to be a winner. Clouds Taste Metallic’s “Evil Will Prevail” is one of the band’s greatest achievements, and on this album, “Evil” is quite good also. Each note fluctuates ever so slightly behind Coyne as he laments “I would have warned you/ Those people are evil/ And it’s hard to understand/ I never understand.” Unlike others on

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Tracks such as “Aquarius Sabotage” and “The Impulse” prove the Lips have not forgotten the ear-pleasing dark lushness of their previous work — even the Christmas on Mars soundtrack. Embryonic is a beguiling failure because it’s

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After steady improvement, Terp defense takes big step backward Wake Forest scored on each of its first five possessions Saturday

BY GREG SCHIMMEL Senior staff writer

In the week leading up to the Terrapin football team’s 42-32 loss at Wake Forest, coach Ralph Friedgen said Demon Deacon quarterback Riley Skinner was one of the best quarterbacks in the history of the ACC. At the time, it sounded like a bit of hyperbole, even though Skinner ranks among the conference’s career leaders in several statistical categories.

But on Saturday, the Terp defense made Skinner look like an all-time great, especially in the first half.

After showing signs of improvement in the Terps’ last two games, the maligned defensive unit played perhaps its worst half of the season in the first 30 minutes Saturday.

Skinner and the Demon Deacons scored touchdowns on each of their first five possessions to build what proved to be an insurmountable 3510 lead.

The Terps played much better after halftime, when they allowed just one more touchdown. But, taken as a whole, Saturday’s performance has to be seen as a major step back for

the defense.

“It’s frustrating, because we’re better than this,” linebacker Alex Wujciak said. “We know we are.”

The Terps ended up allowing 42 points and 516 yards of total offense, the most they have allowed of either since their season-opening 52-13 loss at Cal. They gave up a season-high 360 yards passing and did not force a turnover for the fourth time in six games.

The 35 points and 381 yards of total offense the Terps allowed in the first half were the most in any half this season.

“We didn’t tackle well. I thought we had them wrapped up a few times, and they made some plays,” Friedgen said.

“But they didn’t get any slower in the second half. I thought we just played better in the second half.”

Skinner was probably the best quarterback the Terps faced all season, and he did a good job taking what the Terps’ defense gave him.

But what has to be disconcerting for the Terps is they gave Skinner quite a lot.

Several of Skinner’s long passes were

to wide-open receivers who had found massive holes in the Terps’ secondary.

There were several big plays where the Terps either didn’t know their assignments or didn’t execute them, and a defensive player just wasn’t in the right spot.

After watching the game film, Friedgen said five of the Demon Deacons’ big passing plays came when the Terps blew their coverage. “[The blown coverages were] things we haven’t done when we’ve been playing very, very well,” Friedgen said. “For whatever reason, we didn’t do it [Saturday] night.”

The Terps’ ever-mounting injury situation isn’t helping.

Linebacker Demetrius Hartsfield, who was the defensive hero in the Terps’ win against Clemson the week before, broke two bones in his left hand Saturday and will undergo surgery either this week or next week.

Friedgen said Hartsfield will miss the next three weeks and Ben Pooler will start in his place.

Linebacker Adrian Moten also missed time against Wake after suffering a thigh contusion, but he is probable for Saturday’s game

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against Virginia.

Cornerback Nolan Carroll hasn’t played since he broke his tibia against James Madison and is out for the season, but until this week Cameron Chism played very well in his place.

But Chism struggled against the Demon Deacons.

On one of Skinner’s long touchdown passes, Chism had a chance to make a play on the ball but fell down, leaving his man wide open.

“Obviously we’d like to have our best guys out there,” defensive tackle

Travis Ivey said. “But at the end of the day if you’re out there and you’re a starter, you’ve got to make plays.”

The Terps’ next two games before their bye week are at home against Virginia and on the road at Duke.

Neither of those teams is known as an offensive powerhouse, but they put up 47 and 49 points, respectively, on Saturday.

“We’ve gotta take care of our business and find a way to start winning again,” Friedgen said. schimmel@umdbk.com

Terps face Georgetown with injured teammate Lee in mind Starting defender was struck by car while crossing street Saturday, out indefinitely according to team

BY JONAS SHAFFER Staff writer

Three days after starting defender Alex Lee was struck by a vehicle and hospitalized, the Terrapin men’s soccer team will face Georgetown today with an obvious sense of sadness.

The usually jovial bunch was conspicuously tempered following yesterday’s practice, and coach Sasho Cirovski emphasized the need for his team to balance its off-the-field distraction with its on-the-field play.

“When you’re an athlete, it’s your reprieve to go on the field and play,” Cirovski said. “I know that our guys will be focused on the task at hand and the game that’s inside the lines.”

Lee, a sophomore who had started all 11 games this year at right back, was hit about 9:30 p.m. Saturday while crossing a street in Washington. He was transported to George Washington University Hospital, according to a statement from the Athletics Department released yesterday afternoon.

Lee is currently listed in stable condition and is expected to make a full recovery. The release said that no timetable has been set for Lee’s return, but he will remain sidelined “indefinitely.”

“Alex is an important member of the Maryland Men’s

Soccer team and has the full support of the entire Maryland Soccer family and athletic department,” the release read.

According to several sources familiar with the situation, Lee sustained a head injury and underwent successful surgery after arriving at the hospital.

Lee, a Rockville native, scored a school-record 21 goals in 2007 for Magruder High School as he led the Colonels to the 4A state title during his senior season. He appeared in 13 games as a forward for the Terps last season but converted to defense in the offseason.

Lee joined freshmen Ethan White and Taylor Kemp and senior Kevin Tangney to help form a talented but inexperienced backline that has allowed only 0.82 goals per game this season, fourth-best in the ACC. Redshirt senior Kwame Darko is expected to start in Lee’s place at right back.

His absence will only heighten the difficulty the No. 11 Terps (7-3-1) will encounter this afternoon against the upand-coming Hoyas (8-3-1).

Georgetown blanked No. 4 UCLA 2-0 two days after the Bruins had done the same to the Terps in both teams’ season-opener on Sept. 4. Also, Georgetown’s three losses have come against Connecti-

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Defender Alex Lee, who started all 11 Terp games this season, was struck by a car while crossing a street in Washington on Saturday night. He is out indefinitely, according to the Athletics Department. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

cut and St. John’s — who garnered preseason first-place votes in the Big East’s Blue and Red Divisions, respectively — and No. 5 California.

“They’re a program that’s getting better every year,” Cirovski said. “They’ve had a great year this year, so we know that the challenge on the field will be formidable. We’re going to put it out there.”

Beating the Hoyas will only be part of the struggle, though.

“We’ve had a couple of days to deal with the emotional part of it,” Cirovski said. “Now, we’re ready to play.” shaffer@umdbk.com